dmitri145

Any source of how to get back other removed Google features? :)

Can't speak about the M$oft world that I left long ago. However, as far as I understand, the issue is the OS, and many people simply prefer XP.

But Mac OS is no different. I've been on OS 10.5 and when Google stopped supporting Chrome there, it suddenly stopped working with Youtube. Luckily, I've found a hack and wrote a script launching Chrome without that disable setting. Which proves that there was absolutely no reason to forcefully disable what worked for users for many years.

Browser update stops once you reach the last version supported by your OS. From there, you have to upgrade OS and that is not as easy or risk-free, unfortunately.

As web dev, I am aware of a pain to work with old browsers. However, as user/customer, I perfectly feel for people who have better things to do with their lives, then download, upgrade, update, sometimes spending hours, breaking things, spending more hours to repair them, and so on.

In the ideal world, upgrading should be easy and fast, and provide an easy reverse if the user is not happy. As we know, this is not the case, so how can we blame the user for getting stuck with the old system that reliably worked?

Indeed, I'd also love to know what these "improvements" are. What I see look more like removing features, or hiding them, making harder to find and access.

There used to be a "Map" link, where I'd instantly send my search text into Google Maps. Where is it, and what was wrong with it?